Phoenix HD - Bullet hell Shooter by Firi Games (Universal App)

[Selachii]

Originally Posted by RCranium666

Yup.

Ok, noted. We actually had a Wake 1 and Wake 2 at some point, to get further for a higher price, but we wanted to keep it a bit more simple. Might introduce it at some point, who knows.

Patch should be rolling out 2morow.

[Chiller ONE]

This is one of my favorite non CAVE shmups on iOS.
Is there a sequel or more ships/ different levels planned?

[Selachii]

Thanks, that's great to hear

I think Phoenix HD has some updates left before we have to move into sequel territory.
We are taking careful steps moving forward though, millions of people have Phoenix HD installed, we want to keep them all happy. It might take a while before the next big content update hits, but we are happy with the past 2+ years of updates for Phoenix / Phoenix HD, so for now we will continue on this course

[Connector]

Update is out!

Wowzers! Looks so much better on my new ipad! Now uses the full screen, so that is cool. Looks a little diffent, but I like this look much better.

This is the game when people see it, they are always awed by the wonderful colors and graphics, had 3 people come up to me when I was playing in public and comment on how good it looked.

Cool, full screen on the ipad now! Cool!

[Selachii]

Yep it is available everywhere now.

Happy to see you like it, the difference (without the black bars) is bigger than you would think. Great to hear people approach you to comment on the game. We're very proud of the performance of our Flare Engine and the aesthetics we have created for Phoenix HD. It's all about the word-of-mouth

[killercow]

Originally Posted by Selachii

Yep it is available everywhere now.

Happy to see you like it, the difference (without the black bars) is bigger than you would think. Great to hear people approach you to comment on the game. We're very proud of the performance of our Flare Engine and the aesthetics we have created for Phoenix HD. It's all about the word-of-mouth

And you should be! It looks even more amazing now, great job!

[Selachii]

Best wishes to all of you Phoenix HD players from us at Firi Games!

2012 was great with millions and millions of high scores set on both the old and the new Leaderboards. We'll do our best to make 2013 even better and hope you'll stick around to see what we'll bring this year.

Game on!

Best Wishes from Firi Games on YouTube.

[Future Tomorrow]

Originally Posted by Selachii

Best wishes to all of you Phoenix HD players from us at Firi Games!

2012 was great with millions and millions of high scores set on both the old and the new Leaderboards. We'll do our best to make 2013 even better and hope you'll stick around to see what we'll bring this year.

Game on!

Thanks for that message and an amazing game. I want to address something regarding game play that I'm curious whether a fix/option is in place or other players have seen this as an issue.

Storage of weapon drops -

There have been more time than none(happens almost every game I play), especially when using the "Extra Powerups" boost that there are multiple powerups on the screen but you can only store one at a time.

During the stages between scores of 12million and 23million it's not that much of an issue as the screen can get really busy and they are used pretty quickly but under those scores there are times when weapons are being fired at a blank screen or wasted on enemies that are no match for the Trinity.

Is Firi Games working on a better storage system? There are TONS of games out there that allow for multiple weapon storage and I found this rather odd in Phoenix HD.

If I have any gripes with the game that's the only one. Everything else is beyond positive and this is the only game I really play. I'm not a gamer but Phoenix HD has me hooked. When you guys added the Trinity I had to have it. Before that ship I didn't get past 8 million+. Yesterday I scored 23 million+ and only had to use the Revive around 18million +

I also want to mention that adding another Wake might not be a bad idea. The game is pretty easy with constant play after the 12million - 17 million mark but getting there can be tedious.

Thanks again for an awesome game! You guys seriously rock!

Cheers,
Future Tomorrow

[syntheticvoid]

I thought the extra power ups boost was for drop %, not for storage... =o/

[Selachii]

@Future Tomorrow:
Thanks for your kind words! It's always great to read messages like these.

I'll gladly answer your question regarding storing power-ups. We are always looking for ways to improve the game. In-fact, Phoenix (SD) launched in october 2010 without the ability to store power-ups at all! This feature was later added based on user requests and received a couple of tweaks to improve the experience.

We have considered the option to store more power-ups multiple times and there are several things to consider.

• If it would be possible, how many would you be able to store? 1 more? 2 more? Infinite? Since they are so powerful they have a big impact on the difficulty and balance of the gameplay. We don't want to make them weaker, because they need to remain awesome. We are pretty happy with the current difficulty of the game, so we prefer not to meddle too much with this.
• How would you use the power-ups? Is it a first-in-last-out type situation, with the current controls? How do you see which one is used first? The inevitable next feature-request would be an option to select which power-up to use. This would need a new interface or a different way to interact with the power-ups.
• It would weaken the dilemma of "which power-up to store?", which is a bit of gameplay I like.

Everything is possible, it's just that we haven't found a solution we are very happy with...yet. Maybe the first power up should float on the left side and a second power-up on the right side? Then a tap on the left half of the screen would use the left side and a tap on the right half would use the right side? ..., but then your next request might be to store 3, because there is still power-ups with sub-optimal use.

Like I said, it's a big feature with many consequences and many possible directions. We want to have a perfect solution, so for now we are considering everything on this matter, trying a lot and will continue until we cracked it (Like we did with all updates )

I personally, currently, would like to chalk it up to skill on how to use the power-ups. Yes sometimes there are 3 of them on screen and there's no way you can achieve 100% effectiveness from all of them, but at least you can try to get the most out of it. Choosing your location on the screen, which power-up to attract first, which one to store, etc.

Alternatively we could also add a Drone, capable of carrying an extra power-up for you. This would fit in with the new Drone system nicely, but the interaction/control problem still exists.

So, we have considered many possibilities and I hope the above gives a glimpse of questions and challenges we are considering. Feel free to share your own idea on the matter, the above is just my view and is something that should be challenged by all of you